Months after we all started fretting over the prospect of a global coffee shortage, it seems we might actually start to feel the caffeine-related effects of Brazil's massive drought and Central America's coffee fungus, in the form industry-wide retail price increases.

Earlier this year, scientists revealed that they had finally found evidence of theorized primordial gravitational waves, providing the best proof of the Big Bang Theory to date. Now, however, the researchers have walked back the claim.

Today, Mattel launched the career of Entrepreneur Barbie, a perfectly coiffed, pink-clad, still impossibly-proportioned doll who is somehow supposed to help fuel the corporate ambition of little girls.